Big Fat Corps
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The biggest thing that ever swam came up from Redwood Shores. Now it's belly to the moon with the gulls on the deck, sinking slow and singing all the way down, and the hagfish have their bibs on.
Slop-o-meter 60.3 CERTIFIED SLOP
| Generated music & vocals | Song and vocals made in Suno; I picked the take | +15 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Generated images | Gemini drew 97 plates, props, King Boo ($7.52) | +10 | |
| Animation & render code | Claude coded every Three.js shot and the render | +8 | |
| Lyrics & script | Lyrics written with Claude from my brief | +7.5 | |
| Direction & edit | Claude built the shots; I gave 8 note rounds | +7.5 | |
| Tracking, masks & depth | AI depth maps and masks under every plate | +5 | |
| Motion graphics & lyrics | Whisper-timed lyrics and sourced fact cards | +5 | |
| Research & critique | Facts sourced; Haiku skeptics checked drafts | +1.5 | |
| Audio cleanup & stems | Take trimmed, lyric timings fixed | +0.8 |
No AI: Generated video
By hand: the idea · the whale-fall brief · naming Oracle · every note · picking the take
Inspirations
Music
- Tom Waits
- Your New God's for Sale (it is the encore)
Video
- Your New God's for Sale (same world, same whale)
- Whale falls: hagfish, sleeper sharks, Osedax
- A 90s tech elephant graveyard of dead mascots
- Fantasia's ink shadows
